TEAM MEMBERS
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G. Krishan Ginige, P.E./MS/CFM – President & Senior Engineer. Mr. Ginige brings over 25 years of experience to SEC. His experience includes the construction of water & wastewater treatment plants, water distribution systems with large storage capacity, power stations, road construction, high-rise buildings, large warehouses, hospitals, flood studies, subdivision development and utility design To this, he adds his experience in planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, estimating, quality and safety control, and team coordination. His skill at building successful working relationships with clients and staff as well as his software proficiency including AutoCad, FLO-2D, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, Hydraflow Stormsewer, Hydraflow Express, along with various other office management programs has been a huge asset to the SEC team. At SEC, examples of projects that Mr. Ginige has completed are:
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Mark Farr, RLS – Vice President/Principal Surveyor
Mr. Farr has over 35 years of field and office experience, including large developments, from their initial stages to the final construction surveys and as-built drawings. He has worked with governmental agencies at the municipal, county, and state levels. His background includes cadastral and boundary surveying, construction surveying, as-built documentation, sectional breakdowns, subdivision lot surveys, minor land divisions, associated legal descriptions and results of survey plats. In addition, Mark has been involved in the supervision and management of survey crews, proposal preparation, and contract administration. |
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Neil Johnson – Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Project Liaison
Mr. Johnson has over 40 years of production and supervisory experience on a wide array of projects working with engineering and construction projects including quality control review. These projects range in size and complexity from small, two or three person teams working in remote locations to large, multi-disciplinary planning and design efforts. His diverse experience has made him adept at organizing, describing, and problem solving complex issues inherent to planning and design projects of all sizes. His years working as a forester have made him sensitive to environmental concerns and lead him to naturally include these concerns in his planning and design efforts. His experience includes: review for code compliance, value engineering, cost control and scheduling. |
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Dick Thompson-Soils/Watershed Specialist/NEPA Coordinator/Team Leader
Mr. Thompson spent 24 years with the Soil Conservation Service and Forest Service throughout the Intermountain West. Career advancements took him from soil scientist to multi-resource staff officer with staff responsibilities for range, wildlife, fisheries, soil, water, minerals, recreation, and archaeology. He has served both as survey party member and leader. He is the author or co-author of fourteen technical publications, two research notes, and two popular articles. On the Payette National Forest, he served on the Forest interdisciplinary team for nine years-five as a team member and four as team leader. He gained an understanding of the concepts used to design and evaluate projects by team specialists in range, wildlife, fisheries, transportation planning, logging systems, engineering, silviculture, archaeology, landscape architecture, and recreation. Dick's experience with NEPA began at the time of the passage of the Act and the Forest Service's implementation of those procedures.He has written many NEPA documents, wrote a Forest Service Manual Supplement on implementing NEPA, and kept abreast of applicable case law. His training includes the Shipley Associates "Writing Effective NEPA Documents" workshop. As NEPA Coordinator, Dick has accomplished a number of evironmental analysis and environmental assessment projects by providing resource team leadership, writing and editing skills, document authoring, NEPA compliance assurance, scoping and issue analysis, resource data gathering, and effects analysis. These include land exchanges, land acquisitions, timber sale and road location analyses, range allotment analyses, waste water treatment plant expansions, and wetland surveys. A number of the proposed actions were extremely controversial making strict adherence to the NEPA process a necessity. |
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Thushari Ginige, Civil Engineer P.E./MS/CFM
Ms. Ginige brings over 16 years of highly motivated and creative engineering experience to the SEC team. Her experience in hydraulic modeling and design and her ability to work with specification and regulatory requirements produces high quality results and reports. At Southwestern Environmental Consultants, Ms. Ginige is responsible for Flood studies and Drainage studies, Water system designs, Sewer designs, Grading plans, Utility plans, As Built plans, Site inspection, Scheduling and Billing. Ms.Ginige’s valued experience working in Sri Lanka has added to her ability to work with a variety of team members. Along with her teaching experience, this group of skills adds to her patience and innovative style. |
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Bill Kantor, P.E.-Structural Engineer
Mr.Kantor has over 47 years of experience in a broad range of civil and structural engineering for both public agencies and private consultants. Over the last 16 years, he has been associated with SEC assignments in Flagstaff and the Verde Valley involving the design of highway and roadway drainage structures; 40+ private residence floodway foundation designs; retaining wall designs (concrete, masonry, MSE and others); structural design for commercial, residential and industrial buildings. Bill began his career with ADOT, working on assignments consisting of interstate highway, bridge and drainage design. After ADOT, Bill spent 18 years as project engineer and senior project manager with a civil design firm, managing and designing municipal, county, and DOT projects including county and urban streets, storm drains, water, sewer and irrigation, bridges, other civil structures throughout Arizona. Over the last 13 years, Bill has been practicing in Phoenix, the Verde Valley and Flagstaff with an emphasis in structural design for residential, commercial, institutional and industrial buildings and bridge consulting. Over the last four decades, Bill has provided design and construction administration for several native American projects including housing, schools and medical centers. These projects were done in Needles CA, Inscription House and Many Farms, AZ and for the San Carlos Apache Housing Authority. In addition to the design of new buildings, Bill also provides designs for the remodel of residential, commercial and historic buildings. Unusual conditions including retrofit of roof framing, second story additions and foundation strengthening are areas of practice which he enjoys solving. He also specializes in civil structures including retaining walls of all types, bridges, drainage structures, i.e. box culverts, headwall-wing walls and buried vaults. |
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Neil Wilson-Senior Designer
Mr. Wilson has over 40 years of design & drafting related experience combined with on-the-ground surveying knowledge. He has extensive knowledge of a wide variety of computer software for office management, engineering, land surveying and GIS mapping. He is continually upgrading his drafting and mapping skills to take advantage of the latest technology. Areas of expertise include: mechanical design, GIS mapping, topographic, cadastral & construction surveying, earthwork & construction quantities, survey maps & plats, road, site, sewer and water system designs, processing survey & GPS data, database design and programming, CAD & document management. |
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Fred Hartshorn, M.S. – Planner and Civil Designer
Mr. Hartshorn joined SEC in January 2019, relocating to the Verde Valley from southern Arizona. Highlights in his wide-ranging planning and engineering career including serving as CAD supervisor during Biosphere 2 construction, doing structural steel design for a $2.1 billion mill expansion for Freeport McMoRan, and writing portions of the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan. He has worked on more than 200 subdivisions in Pima County. He served as a transportation planner for a large infrastructure company, creating Safe Routes to School and other bicycle-pedestrian facilities. He also wrote design concept reports and project assessments for various ADOT endeavors. A lifelong learner, he earned his Master of Science in Planning from the University of Arizona in 2011 where he focused on GIS and public involvement.
Mr. Hartshorn joined SEC in January 2019, relocating to the Verde Valley from southern Arizona. Highlights in his wide-ranging planning and engineering career including serving as CAD supervisor during Biosphere 2 construction, doing structural steel design for a $2.1 billion mill expansion for Freeport McMoRan, and writing portions of the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan. He has worked on more than 200 subdivisions in Pima County. He served as a transportation planner for a large infrastructure company, creating Safe Routes to School and other bicycle-pedestrian facilities. He also wrote design concept reports and project assessments for various ADOT endeavors. A lifelong learner, he earned his Master of Science in Planning from the University of Arizona in 2011 where he focused on GIS and public involvement.
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Brian Sorrells-Survey/Forestry Technician
Mr. Sorrells has worked for SEC the past 15 years as a surveyor, drafting technician and most recently, as a forestry technician. His forestry experience includes working as a crew member on a timber stand exam in the mixed conifer timber type on the Dixie National Forest in Utah during the 2009 field season. His duties involved functioning as a tally man and learning stand exam procedures from the professional forester serving as his crew chief. By the end of the season Brian was taking measurements and making estimates that all passed inspection by his immediate supervisor and the Forest Service inspector. During the 2010 field season, Brian worked on a fixed plot stand exam crew on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. In addition, to the usual live tree evaluations made during stand exams he has received extensive experience in evaluating dead and down dead material. |
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Eric Burke–Survey Technician and CADD Draftsperson
Mr. Burke has experience working in the field as well as in the office. In the field he has worked on numerous boundary surveys, ALTA / ASCM surveys, and topographic surveys, along with work on floodplain studies, construction layout / As-builts, and PLSS sectional breakdowns. He is also versed in the setting of ground control and data file management for aerial surveys. His office experience includes drafting results of survey plats, minor land divisions maps, results of topographic surveys maps, ALTA / ASCM survey maps and utility as-built maps. His office experience also includes the research and understanding of recorded documents as they apply to ALTA / ASCM and boundary surveys. Eric is familiar with various surveying instruments including GPS and robotic total stations. He has also completed courses in Trimble real-time kinematic surveying and course 1 of advanced studies in the USPLSS. In addition, Eric has begun to study to take his L.S.I.T test. |
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Steve Biasini-Planner/Landscape Architect
Mr. Biasini earned a masters degree in landscape architecture in 1974. His work experience includes construction management and supervision, teaching and private consulting. He has been providing landscape architecture and project management services in the Verde Valley since 1978. Among his many notable projects in the surrounding communities are the Wal Mart shopping center, the Verde Valley Guidance Center, Cottonwood Ranch residential development and The Crossroads at Mingus subdivision. |
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